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Re: [SANET-MG] BBC NEWS | UK | England | Tyne/Wear | Researchers hail organic potatoes



John D'hondt wrote:

My reasoning was that there was probably some organism in all that lot that would live on Phytophtora infestans (blight) and that would thus protect potato crops from this disease if only it were plentiful enough. To get it plentiful I grew blight prone potato varieties and let the diseased plant-parts rot in situ then planted more potatoes on top that I left in the ground over the wettest winter imaginable.

As I explained before on this list (it is slightly more complex than the very shortened story here) I have been able to grow potatoes absolutely blight free for at least 15 years now. Whether my guardian angel organism is Pisolithus tinctorius I doubt because we don't have "dog-turd-mushrooms" here at all.

Is this procedure one that you would recommend to anyone anywhere to use in any climate and soil condition
or would you only try this under certain growing conditions, or a range of conditions?
--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
Venaura Farm
lflj@bellsouth.net.net
http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/market-farming

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